The regents, chancellors, and vice presidents will meet in the Benson Conference Room at 1800 Grant Street for a contunation of executive session. 

The official CU Board of Regents agenda is the agenda located online at www.boarddocs.com/co/cu/Board.nsf.

Speakers are requested to limit their comments to two minutes. Groups with similar comments are requested to identify one spokesperson. Written comments that are submitted are provided below for Regent review. 

(The Board of Regents' adopted rules of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the board by a single motion. Most of the items listed under the consent agenda have gone through board committee review and recommendation. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member.)

Minutes will be released upon board approval.

See attached.

RECOMMENDATION FROM: Treasurer Tony Vu, with the concurrence of Acting CFO Chad Maturano and Associate Treasurer Chuck Cook.

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION: See attached.

PREVIOUS ACTION(S):

Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Resolution adopted February 11, 2021

Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Resolution adopted June 17, 2021.

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION: This action, if approved, will establish a multi-year Employment Agreement (“Agreement”) with Doreen Jokerst, Chief of Police.

Terms are as set forth in the attached document.

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PREVIOUS ACTION(S): 

 The Board of Regents approved a term contract for September 17, 2018 – September 16, 2023 on September 14, 2018. 

CHANCELLOR'S SIGNATURE: 

PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE: 

RECOMMENDATION FROM: Chancellor Phil P. DiStefano 

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION: This action, if approved, will establish a five-year employment agreement ("Agreement") with Richard George, Athletic Director. 

Terms are as set forth in the attached document.

PREVIOUS ACTIONS: 

Regents approved Employment Agreement Amendment #1 dated June 29, 2016

Regents approved 5 Year Employment Agreement dated August 23, 2013. 

Regents approved an amended employment agreement on June 14, 2019. 

CHANCELLOR'S SIGNATURE: 

PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE: 

See attached report.

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  

President Saliman and the Board of Regents

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION:  

State law generally establishes whether students are classified as in-state students or out-of-state students for tuition purposes. However, with regard to certain types of students, state law also allows a governing board of state-supported institutions to adopt policies providing for in-state tuition classification.

In the 2021 legislative session, the general assembly passed a law (SB 21-029) that requires governing boards to approve a policy to grant in-state tuition to American Indian members who are registered with federally recognized tribes with historic ties to Colorado.   The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs in collaboration with History Colorado maintain a list of recognized tribes that will benefit under the legislation.

Colorado is identified as the ancestral home places of at least forty-eight American Indian tribes. The University of Colorado has a strong tradition of support for diversity of thought and culture on each of its campuses.

Consistent with the expansion in in-state tuition classification law, the proposed resolution requires the campuses to implement processes to offer in-state tuition status to students who meet the criteria established in the tuition classification guidelines through the Colorado Department of Higher Education.

PREVIOUS ACTION(S):  

September 10, 2020, the Board of Regents approved a resolution authorizing campuses to offer In-state tuition classification to include elite level athletic trainees living in Colorado that are authorized by the U. S. Olympic Committee in Colorado and the governing body for the athlete's Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American, or Parapan American sport.

February 19, 2016, the Board of Regents approved a resolution authorizing campuses to offer In-state tuition classification for dependents of honorably discharged military members.

August 3, 2007, the Board of Regents approved a resolution authorizing the university to offer in-state tuition for students who move to Colorado for state economic development incentives pursuant to state law.

PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE: 

See attached.

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  Tony Vu, Treasurer of the University of Colorado

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION:  

PREVIOUS ACTION(S):  

CHANCELLOR'S SIGNATURE: 

PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE: 

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  

See the attached information. The recommended changes were discussed in the Governance Committee meeting on May 26, 2021, and again on September 1, 2021.

The Governance Committee voted to recommend several amendments to the proposed policy changes, which are incorporated into the attached draft and memo of explanation.

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  

Regent Ganahl.

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION:  

Article 5 of the Laws of the Regents recognizes that the aims of the university can be achieved only in an atmosphere of free inquiry and discourse, which the Board of Regents recognizes as the principle of academic freedom.

Article 5 of the Laws of the Regents defines academic freedom is the freedom to inquire, discover, access, publish, disseminate, and teach truth as the individual understands it, subject to no control or authority save the control and authority of the rational methods by which knowledge is established in the field.

The American Association of University Professors and the National Association of Scholars have cautioned that the practices of the Confucius Institutes represent a threat to norms of academic freedom.

Federal law enforcement agencies have also cautioned that the Confucius Institutes may be a vehicle for state sponsored espionage and represent a potential threat to national security.

The University of Colorado’s campuses are responsible for compliance with state and federal laws governing research activities, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and the regulations implementing Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Compliance with these laws, ensuring that research is not inappropriately shared with foreign states whose interests are not aligned with the United States of America’s interests, is does not infringe upon the principles of academic freedom.

PREVIOUS ACTION(S):  

None.

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION:  

See attached PDF. 

PREVIOUS ACTION(S):  

The Board of Regents approved the President's contract on June 17, 2021. 

RECOMMENDATION FROM:  

STATEMENT OF INFORMATION:  

PREVIOUS ACTION(S):  

CHANCELLOR'S SIGNATURE: 

PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE: 

Having no further business, the board business meeting was adjourned at TIME